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Ensuring Black Lives Matter When The Penalty Is Death, Sidney Balman
Ensuring Black Lives Matter When The Penalty Is Death, Sidney Balman
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"Trayvon Martin. Michael Brown. Breonna Taylor. George Floyd. These are several of the names that come to mind when we think about the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. They are the faces of institutional oppression of Black men and women in their daily interactions with law enforcement. Thus far, the BLM movement has focused on police brutality against Black communities—the vagaries of violence perpetrated on minority communities by those whose duty is to protect them. But there is another place where Black Lives should Matter, but don’t—the death penalty." [..]
Why Not Both Nature And Nurture: Using Behavioral Genetic Markers As Sentencing Factors, Seely Kaufmann
Why Not Both Nature And Nurture: Using Behavioral Genetic Markers As Sentencing Factors, Seely Kaufmann
Law Student Publications
"On the evening of July 1, 2013, Amos Wells was upset that his pregnant girlfriend, Chanice Reed, would not answer his calls. He then drove to where she, her mother Annette, and ten-year-old brother Eddie, lived. After arguing with Chanice and yelling at the top of his voice in a “bone-chilling scream,” Wells retrieved a handgun from his Chevrolet Tahoe parked in front of the house, and shot Chanice in the front yard as she screamed, “No, no, no.” Her mother then tried to bat the gun away before he shot her too. Further shots were heard before Wells finally …